The REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) — or “SharkCam,” as it was christened for its Discovery Channel Shark Week debut next week — is a torpedo-shaped vehicle with six cameras implanted to capture different angles. Once scientists attach an acoustic tag to the shark, which sends out sound pings, REMUS is able to follow those pings.

Turns out, the shark-stalking robot may itself have finally become prey.

“Sharks take advantage of the clear water to lurk in the darkness below the vehicle, then swim up suddenly and bite it on the tail or mid-section,” according to the video, posted to Vimeo by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. “This is the same way sharks hunt seals near Guadalupe Island.”

Luckily, the shark-tracking vehicle survived the attacks and recorded dozens of interactions, giving scientists their first closeups of great white shark predation, according to the video. The footage shows us “the majesty and grace of the ocean’s top predator in its natural environment,” the video says.